{"id":432102,"date":"2026-04-12T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/432102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:45:13","slug":"tottenham-confirmed-lineup-vs-sunderland-roberto-de-zerbis-first-xi-revealed-as-lucas-bergvall-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/432102\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham confirmed lineup vs. Sunderland: Roberto De Zerbi’s first XI revealed as Lucas Bergvall starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto De Zerbi<\/a> has named his first Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> lineup to take on Sunderland<\/a> in Sunday’s Premier League clash at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n

The Italian has made a total of five changes to Igor Tudor’s final XI in the 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest<\/strong><\/a> before the international break, and his attacking selection is particularly intriguing.<\/p>\n

Indeed, De Zerbi has gone with three recognised centre-forwards in Richarlison, Randal Kolo Muani and Dominic Solanke, the former two of whom will likely feature out wide.<\/p>\n

Kolo Muani comes into the XI at the expense of Mathys Tel, who drops to the bench after an injury scare on international duty, while Xavi Simons<\/a> also has to make do with a place among the substitutes.<\/p>\n

Djed Spence, Kevin Danso, Pape Sarr and Guglielmo Vicario – out following hernia surgery – have also lost their places in the XI, as Destiny Udogie, Lucas Bergvall<\/a>, Conor Gallagher and Antonin Kinsky come in.<\/p>\n

Gallagher and Bergvall could comprise part of a three-man midfield with Archie Gray in a 4-3-3, or the latter could function at right-back, with Porro playing a more advanced role in a 4-4-2 shape.<\/p>\n

Sunderland make four changes for Tottenham Premier League clash
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Sunderland head coach Regis Le Bris has also rung the changes despite masterminding a 2-1 Tyne-Wear derby triumph over Newcastle United<\/strong><\/a> last time out, making four alterations in total.<\/p>\n

Enzo Le Fee has been promoted back to the first XI, but in place of Chemsdine Talbi rather than Chris Rigg, as the 18-year-old starts alongside Brian Brobbey in attack once more.<\/p>\n

Le Bris has made a further three changes in defence, as first-choice goalkeeper Robin Roefs – back from a hamstring injury – returns over Melker Ellborg as the last line of defence.<\/p>\n

Nordi Mukiele and Reinildo Mandava are also preferred to Trai Hume and Lutsharel Geertruida out wide, but Daniel Ballard (hamstring) does not make the squad.<\/p>\n

Spurs will rise above West Ham United and climb out of the Premier League relegation zone<\/strong><\/a> with all three points against Sunderland, who in turn could overtake both Fulham and Bournemouth to break into the top half with a victory.<\/p>\n

Tottenham lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Kinsky; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Gray, Bergvall, Gallagher; Kolo Muani, Solanke, Richarlison<\/p>\n

Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Austin, Dragusin, Danso, Palhinha, Simons, Bissouma, Tel, Spence, Sarr<\/p>\n

Sunderland lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Roefs; Mukiele, Alderete, O’Nien, Reinildo; Sadiki, Xhaka, Diarra; Le Fee, Brobbey, Rigg<\/p>\n

Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Ellborg, Hume, Geertruida, Cirkin, J. Jones, H. Jones, Talbi, Mayenda, Isidor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi has named his first Tottenham Hotspur lineup to take on Sunderland in Sunday’s Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2529,18,2531,13,14,22,2524,2527,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,2530,2528,795,2525,119,2533,2532,2526,7,8],"class_list":["post-432102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cycling","tag-eire","tag-epl","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116392278380314701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}